Chris Toller

Biography

Chris Toller is a leading international consultant in pharmaceutical medical affairs.  Educated at Westminster Medical School, London, Chris left clinical medicine in the 1980s and founded MEDIQ Ltd – one of the UK’s first specialist medical communications agencies.  Over the next 15 years, Chris led teams in the UK and USA that devised medical affairs strategies and implemented programmes for most of the world’s top 20 pharma companies.  As well as making important contributions to over 100 different medical brands, his skills have also been utilized by smaller companies and biotech start-ups – acting as a virtual medical affairs department. After the success of MEDIQ, Chris spent 2 years directing medical and commercial strategies for a US-based private biotech company before he joined the Choice Group in 2010.  Initially, he led the international medical communications business, Choice Healthcare Solutions, and was then invited onto the Group board as Head of Strategy in 2012.  Chris currently works as Managing Partner at Havas Life Medicom UK.

Research Interest

Throughout his career, Chris has had experience in just about every therapy area, and has worked with medical affairs teams in Europe and the USA as well as emerging markets in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has a reputation as a creative strategic thinker, an excellent communicator and an inspirational presenter. Chris Toller joins C.E.L.forpharma’s faculty in 2016 with the launch of the Medical Affairs for Modern Pharma course.